HSEB AWIPS Software Development
Mission:
To serve our customers at National Weather Service (NWS) Weather
Forecast Offices (WFOs) and River Forecast Centers (RFCs) by providing
high-quality hydrometeorological software and associated support
services for operational use on their AWIPS systems in accordance
with the NWS Hydrology Program. Our focus is on scientific software
for use at WFOs only or for use at both WFOs and RFCs.
Who
we are:
Mark
Glaudemans, Lead
Jingtao Deng
Russ Erb
Chip Gobs
Bryon Lawrence
Varalakshmi Rajaram
Gautam Sood
Paul Tilles
Ram Varma
What
we do: We develop and support integrated software for operational
use on AWIPS workstations at NWS WFOs and RFCs. Our software
focus is on the software that is "shared" between WFOs and RFCs,
which includes the relational database for storing the vast amounts
of hydrometeorological data and the supporting station parameter
data. The software consists of three primary components:
- The SHEF
decoder application, which provides the functions for the ingest,
decoding, and posting for this primary station data;
- The WFO
Hydrologic Forecast System (WHFS) applications suite, which
provide the necessary data management, data analysis, and product
generation functions required to support the operational demands
of the NWS hydrology program; and
- The Precipitation
Processing applications suite which provide the specialized
functions for the ingest, analysis, and display of precipitation
information.
At an RFC, this
shared software works in conjunction with the "RFC-only" software,
which is the focus of a separate, complementary group for AHPS software
development within the HSEB.
Software
Applications Supported: There are three areas of software supported,
in addition to the general support of the Integrated Hydrologic
Forecast System (IHFS) relational database. Each of these areas
and their primary applications are listed below, with the internal
name given in parentheses.
- IHFS:HydroBase
Manager (hydrobase), Metar Decoder/Shef Encoder (metar2shef),
Database Purger (db_purge), Data File Purger (purge_files)
- SHEF Decoder:
SHEF decode (shefdecode)
- WHFS:
HydroView Data Viewer/Analysis Tool (HydroView/MPE), Time Series
Analysis Tool (TimeSeries), Site Specific Hydrologic Prediction
Function (SiteSpecfic), Rate-of-change Checker (roc_checker),
Alert/Alarm Checker (report_alarm), RiverPro Product Formatter
(RiverPro),
- Precipitation
Processing: DPA Product Decoder (decodedpa), Multi-Sensor Precipitation
Estimator (MPE) Operations (mpe_fieldgen, MPE component of HydroView),
Areal FFG Product Generator (gen_areal_ffg)
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